NEW YORK — Eminem found himself on the defensive Tuesday (November 18) after The Source magazine owners Ray Benzino and Dave Mays held a press conference to play a recording of the MC delivering racial slurs.

On the first of two tracks purportedly recorded in 1993, an audibly young male, who says he's Eminem raps, "All the girls I like to bone have big butts/ No they don't, 'cause I don't like that n----- sh--/ I'm just here to make a bigger hit."

The second track, made in 1988, featured Eminem rapping about a black girlfriend he broke up with. "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/ But black girls only want your money, 'cause they dumb chicks," he rhymes. Later in the freestyle Em raps, "Never date a black girl, because they only want your money/ And that sh-- ain't funny."

The first track was only a few lines long, but the second track went on for several minutes with Em — seemingly rhyming off the top of his head — repeatedly saying he did not like black girls and that they were only out to get money. Both tracks sounded amateurish.

"Don't make this right now a double standard," Benzino said at the press conference. "We gotta treat this the same way you treat Mike Tyson, like you treat Kobe Bryant, like you treat R. Kelly, like you treat O.J. Simpson."

Eminem responded to the latter track on Tuesday by insisting he isn't racist and explaining that the recording was made when he was just 15, foolish and angry.

"Ray Benzino, Dave Mays and The Source have had a vendetta against me, Shady Records and our artists for a long time," Eminem said in a statement. "The tape they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager. I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today."

Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, said Wednesday that neither he nor Eminem had "heard or heard of" the first track Benzino and Mays played.

Eminem, 50 Cent and the rest of the Shady/Aftermath team have had a long-running feud with The Source, fueled by Benzino's accusations that the media operate on a double standard when it comes to the multiplatinum white MC and that an artist of color could never get away with saying some of the things Em says in his music (see "Benzino Ignites Beef By Calling Eminem '2003 Vanilla Ice'").

After their comments, Benzino and Mays refused to entertain questions about the tape and its origins. They did say they plan to include a CD of the Eminem recordings in February's issue, and they promised another press conference concerning Eminem will be held in the future, when they'll answer questions and have civic leaders and members of the hip-hop community on hand.

Benzino is such a fucking bitch. Hes going on some campaign to try and ruin Eminem for some stupid shit he said when he was 15. The track isnt even that racist. Benzino says we have to treat him like Kobe, or R. Kelly. Man Benzino is such a fucking jealous fruit. Fuck the Source Magazine and Fuck Benzino. Benzino picked a lyrical fight with Eminem about a year ago saying that he is only successfull because he is white. Go download the song called Nail in the Coffin. Eminem murders that stupid fuck. HAHAHA.

No one plies the neo-macho trade like Eminem. Talent notwithstanding, what made this blue-eyed rapper a star was his baroque misogyny (as in: "My little sister's birthday, she'll remember me/For a gift I had ten of my boys take her virginity").

Too bad Eminem didnt say that. A guy in Em's group D12 named Bizzare said that on the Marshal Mathers LP

hahaha no first of all everything that bizzare says is fucked up. heres a quote

*warning*

[Bizarre]Love the pussySell that pussy b***hGet out there and switch and go make Bizarre richYou gotta itchYou f*cking dirty b***hNow get on the corner and start sucking some d*ckNiggas want pussyAnd I need cashSo mom get out there and start selling your dirty assBizarre quick to hit 'emThen stick 'emf*ck it I'll let you hear one of my victims(Somebody help, I'm on Seven Mile and Muriel, NO)Shut up b***h you talk too muchAnd about to get f*cked in your dirty buttNever seen a pimp like me out here whoringShut your f*cking mouth and you'll be out in the morningCuz I'm the dirtiest pimp you ever heard ofGive me my 5000 and take this cheeseburger (b***h)Go suck d*ck at a bachelor partySo what if you on your periodBlood never hurt nobody

he gos for the shock value but he sucks

Eminem says wierd shit that will actually fuck with you and is effective

"broke the rubber, busted a nut up in your mother,so how you feel about havin' another little brother..."later on in the same song..."starin' at the bitch with firm tits."

I think it's clear here that eminem loves all women as long as they are firm. Whether they are black or white...it matters not. There is a lot of symbolism within his intelligent, well thought out lyrics...I mean, metaphorically speaking....yeeeaah. The interpretation is all up to the listener...they hear what they are prone to hear.

umm, yeah. okay. "Did he just say what I think he said?"

Either that, or some people are just tight-asses and only fuel his attempt at offending every possible kinda person with their constant whining.

The dude raps about killing his own mom. I am thinkin' him calling black women gold diggers is the least anyone should worry about.

I was flipping channels on the radio and came across that Eminem track. I had no idea what it was -- it did sound pretty amateurish, and I couldn't believe it was actually getting played because its pretty racist. I don't for a second believe that Eminem is actually racist, though. So it's more of a curio than anything else. And his misogynistic stuff is (almost) on the same level as Jimi Hendrix talking about going down to shoot his old lady...